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Excuse me sir and/or Madam, we're gonna need to confiscate that leg

http://i.imgur.com/CBpL4.jpg

With apologies to Nathan "In the Sticks" Cooper for stealing his "sir and/or madam" line.

-JG

Schadenfreude Wednesday (Part 3) "The Last Airbender" reviews producing great journalism

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/

 

Schadenfreude Wednesday Part 2

Trudeau Goes Home Again

http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/514060.html?nav=5008

  

Baldo Comic Strip Character Entered in Oprah's "Your OWN Show" Competition

Baldo Comic Strip Character Entered in Oprah's "Your OWN Show" Competition

Kansas City, Mo. (June 29, 2010) - Does Tia Carmen have what it takes to host a talk show? The favorite great aunt of newspaper comic strip character Baldo has entered her own audition video in Oprah Winfrey's "Your OWN Show" competition.

The contest winner will host a TV series on Winfrey's new television network, OWN, which is scheduled to launch in January 2011.



"Oprah is looking for people with a big personality and a big dream, and Tia Carmen fits the bill," said Baldo co-creator Carlos Castellanos.

"Now it's up to the public to decide whether she gets her own talk show," added Baldo co-creator Hector Cantu.

Aspiring hosts can label their shows under categories such as traditional talk show, cooking, health and wellness, and interior design.

"Tia Carmen does it all," Cantu said. "If she gets a show, she will talk about her favorite novelas, herbal remedies and, of course, all the neighborhood gossip."

"There's also a 'wildcard' category," said Castellanos. "Maybe that's a better category for Tia Carmen."

You can view Tia Carmen's audition video, vote, and share her link by starting at her Web site www.VoteTiaCarmenOnOprah.com and then clicking on her Oprah audition link.

Visitors to Winfrey's Web site can vote for their favorite contestant through July 3, 2010.

Baldo, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, is a daily comic strip featuring Latino characters and themes. Starring the teenage Baldo and his extended family, the strip is syndicated by Universal Uclick in more than 200 newspapers coast-to-coast.
To read Baldo, visit www.gocomics.com/baldo.

Schadenfreude Wednesday

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But on GoComics it's perfectly legal and there's not a court in the land that could convict you for it. 

-JG

Huey Freeman Speed Paint on iPad

-JG

Steve Martin used to be a real comedian?

I thought he just did inoffensive family-friendly movies. 

-JG

h/t to B. Biggar

Happy 39th to the Most Beautiful, Most Baldest, Most Pantless Man in the world!

Who can forget this little scene from "Seinfeld" episode #169?

Elaine: Check it out, from the new issue of the New Yorker...huh!...Funny isn't it? ( Dugan shrugs)

Look at it, the pig wants to be taller and what's this guy gonna say?.. he he...Nothin'..he he.

Peterman: Elaine, I'm afraid I have incurred yet another flat tire.

Elaine: Can I fix that after lunch sir?

Peterman: Oh! no right away , chop, chop........Oh! a new cartoon....."I wish I was taller (hearty laugh)

I'd like to see that complaint get rectified. (more laughs and he leaves)

Elaine: (to Dugan ) You see? You see? Smart people think this is funny and you want to know why?

'Cause I wrote it.

Dugan: You shouldn't make fun of pigs. ( he leaves)

Peterman (returns) Flash of lightning Elaine I just realized why I like this cartoon so much.

Elaine: Oh! Do tell sir?

Peterman: It's a Ziggy!

Elaine: A Ziggy?

Peterman: That irreverence , that wit I'd recognize it anywhere. Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own. I can prove it. Quick Elaine , to my archives.

-JG